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Friday, September 25, 2009

little red doll quilt

i confess i am not in love with this doll quilt, but my daughter tells me she LOVES it--so it's a success. i wanted something quick to work on, and settled on a doll quilt.

i used many of my little red ridinghood prints and was liking it okay, until i tried out a new quilting method (pebbles, first seen here). i think the pebble quilting is totally wrong for this quilt, and probably the reason i am not happy with it. the good news is i discovered that pebble quilting takes forever, and i probably won't try it again (maybe on a small quilt), but i do like the way it looks.

I too love it! My daughter is going to be Little Red Riding Hood for Halloween this year and I was going to make her a little quilt too....also use that fancy photo paper to piece a picture of her on it...love your LRRH prints...you have some good ones!! Lucky!!

The last quilt I have completed I used pebble FMQ. At first I really did not like it, but it took a while to fall in love with it. Can't say much if the quilt pattern suits pebbling since I myself just getting use to it.

I agree that pebbles take for ever; but they add such a lovely texture to a quilt, just like they do to your.

I find them hard to combine with other kinds of quilting though, they tend to shrink the quilted area much more than other quilting. I just had to steam press a quilt to make it flat again after adding pebbles to an already finished quilt.